Blast, corrupt, dismantle, erase : contemporary North American dystopian literature /
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Waterloo, Ontario :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Altered States. The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson's Bigend Trilogy / Janine Tobeck
- The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Popular Dystopia / Carl F. Miller
- Logical Gaps and Capitalism's Seduction in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl / Sharlee Reimer
- "The Dystopia of the Obsolete": Lisa Robertson's Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia / Paul Stephens
- Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange / Hande Tekdemir
- Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M. T. Anderson's Feed / Richard Gooding
- Part II: Plastic Subjectivies. Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood's Dystopia Fiction / Annette Lapointe
- The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivor's Series / Alexa Weik von Mossner
- "The Treatment for Stirrings": Dystopian Literature for Adolescents / Joseph Campbell
- Imagining Black Bodies in the Future / Gregory Hampton
- Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy / Sharon DeGraw
- Part III: Spectral Histories. Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra's Historical Dystopia / Zac Zimmer
- Love, War and Mal de Amares: Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution / Maria Odette Canivell
- Culture of Control / Control of Culture: Anne Legault's Recits de Medihault / Lee Skallerup Bessette
- The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland's Geography of Apocalypse / Robert McGill
- Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Fiction / Lysa Rivera
- America and Books Are "Never Going to Die": Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story as a New York Jewish "Ustopia" / Marleen S. Barr
- In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers and the Crisis of the Unpresentable / Thomas Stubblefield
- Homero Aridjis and Mexico's Eco-Critical Dystopia / Adam Spires
- Part IV: Emancipating Genres. Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman's American Gods / Robert T. Tally, Jr.
- Which Way is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Layrinth / Luis Gomez Romero
- Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One / Kit Dobson
- The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking Back from CanLit to SF / Owen Percy
- "It's not power, it's sex": Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook and Nicole Brossard's Baroque at Dawn / Helene Staveley
- Another Novel is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder's U.S.! and Robert Newman's The Fountain at the Center of the World / Lee Konstantimou.
